Two Delaware County firms update officials

Progress Rail and Bell Aquaculture discuss jobs, improvements

7:15 AM,
Jul. 17, 2012

Progress Rail on Cowan Road.

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Delaware County officials heard updates on two local industrial employers on Monday - with promises of more information to come on one.

The largest of the two local operations is Progress Rail Services, the division of Caterpillar that is in its second year of railroad locomotive manufacturing in the former Westinghouse/ABB plant on Cowan Road.

Brad Bookout, an economic development consultant for the commissioners, attended Monday's meeting and noted that Progress Rail now employed 280 people at the plant. Progress Rail officials and economic development authorities have forecast ...